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There is no Black Friday - Brett Scott on cultural malware

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There is no Black Friday - Brett Scott on cultural malware

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to

Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

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There is no Black Friday

And the overlords of the global village spam us with cultural malware

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Only sheeple shop on Black Friday. An astute and correct observation.

Note the author doesn’t use the word sheeple, but “black-friday” and “cyber-monday” he argues are top-down orders to the masses to consume, and he is absolutely correct.

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